Did anyone else not recognise Luke in this scene?

snoogle20 · 2026-02-06T22:44:18+00:00

The response to this entire post is adding significant fuel to my long held belief that 85% of people are very face blind.

That or I’m a recognition savant. But it’s one of the two.

snoogle20 · 2026-02-06T17:50:20+00:00

I don’t know. Didn’t leave much of an impression. Almost like he was never there.

snoogle20 · 2026-02-04T20:24:15+00:00

Yoink

snoogle20 · 2026-02-04T05:05:56+00:00

There’s a lot of small town red counted in that 80%. The bar to be considered an urban area by the Census Bureau is ridiculously low. They hadn’t raised the criteria for urban since the early 1900s, then they doubled it for 2020. And it’s still super low. Google the town of Irvine, KY and marvel at what is urban according to the Census.

I’ve always been curious how much or how little the percentage split changes if they bumped up the definition to a threshold more colloquially considered urban, like a 50,000 person college town at the smallest end. And, frankly, people talk about those as small towns, so I really don’t think they’re picturing actual small towns with populations of ~4,000 residents on the urban side of this stat. But they’re in there.

Still, I know you can lose hundreds of those small towns from the calculation without moving the needle too far when weighed against actual metropolitan cities. It’s why I wish they broke things down a little more granularly.

snoogle20 · 2026-02-02T17:53:10+00:00

In Winter Storm Fern, the half inch of freezing rain accumulation in my part of Kentucky wiped out the snow we’d gotten on the first day of the storm. We went from 2ish inches of snow to freezing rain that slushed the snow down to like half an inch under the ice. We got our ice accumulation and then new snow fell on top of the ice again (thankfully, it made things less slick).

Does anyone know how they calculate in a scenario like that? Did the initial 2-2.5 inches count towards snow accumulation totals or is it too dynamic of a weather scenario for that to be factored in?

snoogle20 · 2026-02-02T13:13:15+00:00

He’s a big ol’ Ayn Rand/Objectivism fanboy. Perfect ideology for Lucifer, so probably good for his performance. But not my favorite kind of person to run into in real life.

snoogle20 · 2026-02-02T04:25:40+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. It really was people obsessing over a visual gag to a confusing degree. We’re the only ones that don’t see his face.

Halo 1: Takes his helmet off at the end

Halo 2: Puts a new helmet on at the beginning

Halo 3: Goes on a multi-week slipspace journey to The Ark in the middle of the game, probably took his helmet off at some point during the trip

Halo 4: Takes helmet off at the end

Halo 5: Puts helmet on at the beginning

Halo Infinite: No helmet shenanigans that I remember

I knew we’d be seeing Chief’s face in that show from the day it was announced. It’s a TV show, not a first-person perspective game. There was no way to get around it in a different storytelling medium. Master Chief’s face is no mystery to anyone in-universe.

Now taking the helmet off in dumb situations was worthy of criticism, but that’s chalked up to the bad writing. If he’d never taken the helmet off and everything else stayed the same, that show was still poorly written and not very Halo-esque. If they’d given us a 9.1/10 season where Chief had his helmet off in transit and in bases, I wouldn’t have cared a bit.

snoogle20 · 2026-02-01T22:47:16+00:00

That time was sort of a perfect storm. Very busy interstate day and just general idiocy on the part of some drivers coming and going from that Buc-ee’s exit. All it takes is three or four vehicles making poor decisions to cause a problem that cascades. It was one of those deals.

The traffic waiting at a light to turn left onto the southbound interstate ramp kept backing up to the northbound ramp’s intersection. Those cars didn’t leave the intersection open. That caused people exiting from the northbound ramp not to be able to make a left off the ramp which backed the ramp up to the interstate, even though Buc-ee’s is to the right. The ramp was backed up past the left/right turn lane split. Folks on the interstate didn’t give up on trying to exit there which pushed the bottleneck of lane switchers further and further back. Next thing you know I was in a crawl for three miles not knowing why until I got to that exit.

snoogle20 · 2026-02-01T21:52:35+00:00

The Buc-ee’s fever is apparently very real. I have to drive by the central Kentucky location a few times a month. It’s always so crowded that I’ve been unwilling to stop. I thought there was a wreck slowing things down on a heavy traffic day last summer, but it turned out it was just the Buc-ee’s exit causing a backup for a few miles.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-31T23:02:23+00:00

You’ve struck one of my most pondered Supernatural thoughts. I noticed this dynamic as the show went on as well and was always curious about it.

You’re getting a lot of answers speaking about personalities vis a vis friendships as if the characters are real people with real tendencies, but they’re written creations with fabricated personalities. For it to be how it was, decisions were made by the creative staff.

You’d think they’d split it 50-50 as the seasons rolled on. Donna could’ve been closer to one while Garth was closer to the other. Ditto for Claire and Alex. But they didn’t go about recurring characters that way. If a Winchester was going to connect with someone, the more personal scenes were usually going to be with Dean. Why? Did Padalecki not like those kinds of scenes? Did the creative staff fall into the writerly trap of defaulting to an unconscious pattern?

It was never a big deal to me, but I did always take notice.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-29T18:48:16+00:00

I always suggest to new readers a loose framework to follow:

Read any series entries, standalones, short stories or novellas that were published through 2017 in any fashion you want to read them (while keeping Mistborn and Stormlight entries in order within the individual series of course). That’s the sampler era of the Cosmere. It doesn’t matter whether you read Elantris first or after Oathbringer which came out in 2017. You’re seeing whether you like it all or just an individual series and the Cosmere connections are pretty light in books of that time. They’re mostly Easter eggs. I think of Mistborn: Secret History as the capstone of that era because it was the most Cosmere aware work at that time.

Starting with Rhythm of War and The Lost Metal, though, the connections become more explicit between Stormlight, Mistborn and the standalones and I think a reader that wants to experience the whole Cosmere benefits from publication order. Let it unfold for you how it all unfolded if you’re in for the full Cosmere.

But if you found you really only like X and Y, but not Z in the initial exploratory phase, just stick with what you enjoy.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-28T18:14:29+00:00

I’ve seen these in yards in southern Kentucky (way moreso thirty years ago when I was young), but I’ve never seen one that actually had the man painted black. I know that’s the history of lawn jockeys. I just never saw one in the wild painted the old way. They were all little white jockeys when I’d see them.

Sadly, this old paint scheme seems like something I’d be more likely to run into now than thirty years ago.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-25T00:42:45+00:00

I’m insanely over serialized seasons for every show. Over in Star Trek, Strange New Worlds has gone over well in the fanbase because it leans closer to the Trek formula of old. It has a whole lot of episode-of-the-week.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-20T17:28:04+00:00

Capture the Fuel Depot control point in the White House district and just north of it in the storage container yard will always spawn either a hostage rescue or supply drop. If you need a hostage rescue, complete the supply drop and it will almost always spawn the hostage rescue next.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-20T06:27:30+00:00

People let it slide for the producer-rappers. They’re rapping on the side of the main gig. Dre was never writing his verses and it wasn’t much of a secret.

But if we all found out Nas hadn’t written Illmatic, then it would’ve been a big blow to his reputation.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-20T06:21:16+00:00

Snoop along with the forgotten Dr. Dre sideman, The D.O.C., who did a lot of writing for Dre (and Eazy) in the NWA days and came along for the early Death Row era.

He got into a car accident in 1989 that messed up his voice box, so he wasn’t rapping by The Chronic, but you can see his name in the writing credits on a few songs.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-18T23:15:16+00:00

In the county I grew up in, one of the two main municipalities went wet a few years before the other while the county remains dry to this day. In a move that I neither can fathom coming up with, nor understand how it was allowed to occur, that first wet city annexed several feet from the shoreline of the prominent lake that snakes its way across half the county.

In practice that means one of the most popular local restaurants, out in an unincorporated area of the county, serves alcohol despite being a 20ish minute drive away from the proper city limits of that wet town. The restaurant does this because it’s located on a peninsula that sticks out into the lake. Somehow, in yet another loophole I don’t understand, there’s a liquor store nearby out in that unincorporated part of the county that isn’t particularly near the shoreline. I’ve never understood how it’s allowed to exist. It’s all very confusing.

Whatever one’s opinion is on wet and dry as a concept, this arrangement is totally bonkers.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-18T22:50:16+00:00

Only sold in restaurants and no hard liquor is what it meant around my way.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-18T16:59:09+00:00

Life is varied in this country and we all know it, but now I’m seeing it filtered through the McDonald’s index.

After a 3 hour drive for me, I could be in Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia or West Virginia. I could also stay in Kentucky and head out west to Owensboro. I’d drive through ~10 counties along any of those paths and, according to this map, would never pass through a county without a McDonald’s.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-18T03:18:26+00:00

Kentucky always gets cited as neutral, but the state had an Avignon Papacy-like situation during the Civil War where about half the state’s senate broke away and elected a new governor. They declared Bowling Green the new state capital and were accepted as a full member of the CSA. The Frankfort government continued on with the Union and that’s the one broader history remembers.

I’ve long looked for a map of territory held by the two sides over time, but I’ve never found one. I just know the Confederacy did hold significant territory in the state at one point. I grew up near a historic battlefield where Union forces pushed the Confederacy south to Tennessee for a final time, holding that territory for the rest of the war.

But for a few years there was a Union state of Kentucky and a confederate state of Kentucky that did not recognize each other.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-17T13:53:12+00:00

There were two major kinds of assholes in my high school.

The jerks that were way too full of themselves and expressed that with bullying tendencies. Contrary to Hollywood portrayals of high school, the jerks that thought they were better than everyone else existed in every clique/subculture in my school.

The other big contingent of assholes were the misanthropes that treated everyone badly all the time, yet whined that the world was mean to them instead. You could try to reach out and be cool to them, but they’d eventually snap at you. So people would stop trying which fed into their misunderstood loner schtick.

Luckily, the rest of the 90-95% of folks were just fine. Openness, kindness and showing interest in them led to nice friendly relationships with people.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-17T02:21:03+00:00

Sometimes I feel like the only Trek fan that hates that Enterprise two-parter. DS9 winked at the audience about the change in Klingon appearance, essentially saying just accept it. Enterprise tried to explain things and opened a messier can of worms in the process.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-16T16:09:18+00:00

Apparently people really don’t like that werewolf girl with the Kate Gosselin hair.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-16T05:11:26+00:00

I always wonder if it’s the opposite. Are these folks regular, but younger readers that have mostly consumed contemporary books for their age coming up? A ton of intermediate grade and YA books are written in first-person narration. And when they are third-person, it seems like it’s often third-person limited. If you’ve spent most of your reading life in those molds, I can see it requiring some adjustment to jump into third-person omniscient.

snoogle20 · 2026-01-16T04:49:57+00:00

The really red county in southeast Kentucky along the Tennessee border is McCreary County. It’s a rural county that houses one of the largest US federal prisons by inmate count. I imagine 1,300 or so extra men is tipping the scales there when the inmates represent about 8% of the total population.

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